Chart of 1777. The dot is on the road just north of the Bristol town grid, at the site of the house.
1777 map · Topographical Chart of the Bay of Narraganset. · David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
Chart of 1777. The dot is on the road just north of the Bristol town grid, at the site of the house.
1777 map · Topographical Chart of the Bay of Narraganset. · David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
Chart of 1777. The dot is at the foot of the hill lettered Mount Hope.
1777 map · Topographical Chart of the Bay of Narraganset. · David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
The ground of August 1778, on a map published in 1807. The dot is on Turkey Hill.
1807 map · Siege of Newport, Rhode Island. · David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
August 1778, on a map published in 1807. The dot is on the Tiverton shore by the camp lettered Gen: Greene.
1807 map · Siege of Newport, Rhode Island. · David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
Plan of 1871. The dot is among the waterfront mills drawn below the words Mount Hope Bay.
1871 map · Fall River. · David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
Plan of 1891, the year this church was first planned. The dot is on the street grid north of the South Park.
1891 map · City of Fall River, Massachusetts. · David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
Around Mount Hope Bay, 1777 to 1891
Six places from Bristol to Fall River, each on an old map of its own ground.
6 stops across Rhode Island and Massachusetts.
By car. About 22 miles, 6 stops.
Each of the six stops is listed on the National Register of Historic Places, and each account here is written from that place's own Register file. Each stop opens on a map printed between 1777 and 1891, with a numbered dot where the place is.
Pins mark where the federal record places each listing, sometimes the center of an area rather than a street address.
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Joseph Reynolds House
Start here. By car.
Family records say Joseph Reynolds built this house between 1698 and 1700 on land of his father Nathaniel, who had moved from Boston in 1680 as one of the founders of Bristol, then a Massachusetts town. The town required houses of two stories. This one has three, and is five bays wide. Joseph was a shoemaker and tanner, and ran the town's first gristmill on the same ten acres. In September 1778 the Marquis de Lafayette, charged with the care of Warren, Bristol and the eastern shore, made his headquarters here. He was twenty-one. The house stayed in the Reynolds family until 1927.
Written from the National Historic Landmark nomination for this house (National Park Service).
The official record
Building · Listed 1972 · National Historic Landmark · Contributing: 1 building
The pin is the center of the area the federal record covers, not a street address.
This page shows the federal record's own fields.
Mount Hope Farm
By car. About 3 miles from stop 1.
The farm takes its name from Mount Hope, the hill its land once included, the seat of the Wampanoag. King Philip, sachem of the Wampanoag, was at Mount Hope in early August 1676. On 12 August he was surprised and killed in the swamp near Cold Spring by Alderman, who had led Captain Benjamin Church to the place. Four colonies then claimed the land. Plymouth won and in 1680 sold it to four Boston merchants. Isaac Royall of Medford, Massachusetts, began the house about 1745, and left for Halifax three days before the Battle of Lexington. Rhode Island confiscated the farm during the Revolution. In 1783 it passed to William Bradford, deputy governor and later United States senator.
Written from the National Register nomination for this farm (National Park Service).
The official record
Building · Listed 1977 · Contributing: 7 buildings
The pin is the center of the area the federal record covers, not a street address.
This page shows the federal record's own fields.
Battle of Rhode Island Site
By car. About 5 miles from stop 2.
The American army under Major-General John Sullivan had given up its siege of British-held Newport and was falling back up the island when the British caught it here. They came up onto Quaker, Turkey and Almy Hills. The Americans held the far side of a valley a mile wide. From ten in the morning until four in the afternoon the British made three assaults on the American right, and each was checked. Among the defenders of that flank was the First Rhode Island Regiment, 138 Black soldiers raised earlier that year under a law that freed any enslaved man who enlisted. The next night Sullivan took the army off the island.
Written from the National Historic Landmark nomination for this site (National Park Service).
The official record
Site · Listed 1974 · National Historic Landmark · Contributing: 1 structure, 1 site
The pin is the center of the area the federal record covers, not a street address.
This page shows the federal record's own fields.
Fort Barton Site
By car. About 6 miles from stop 3.
After the British took Newport in 1776, the shortest water crossing between Aquidneck Island and the mainland was the ferry at Tiverton. In 1777 Massachusetts agreed to help Rhode Island build an earthwork on the granite hill above it, to be called Tiverton Heights Fort. It held seven guns. That July Lieutenant-Colonel William Barton and a party picked from the fort went to a house halfway down the island and took the British commanding general, Richard Prescott, captive. The fort was renamed for Barton. In August 1778 the American army crossed here to Aquidneck. At the end of the month most of the troops left, and a small force stayed to man the fort.
Written from the National Register nomination for this site (National Park Service).
The official record
Site · Listed 1973 · Contributing: 1 structure, 1 site
The pin is the coordinate the Park Service publishes for this listing.
This page shows the federal record's own fields.
American Printing Co. and Metacomet Mill
By car. About 6 miles from stop 4.
The Fall River Iron Works built the Metacomet Mill in 1847 from plans by Major Bradford Durfee and his nephew William Davol, who had traveled to England in 1838 to study mill design. It was modeled on a cotton mill at Bolton, England. At 70 feet it was wider than the city's earlier mills, and iron posts and girders carried its floors. It stood lowest on the falls of the Quequechan River, and had two water wheels and a 150-horsepower steam engine. It was named for King Philip of the Wampanoag, also called Metacomet. The American Print Works, founded in 1834, became the American Printing Company in 1880 and took over the mill in 1904.
Written from the Massachusetts Historical Commission inventory form in this place's National Register file (National Park Service).
The official record
Building · Listed 1983 · Contributing: 5 buildings
Multiple property listing: Fall River MRA
The pin is the center of the area the federal record covers, not a street address.
This page shows the federal record's own fields.
St. Anne's Church and Parish Complex
By car. About 1 mile from stop 5.
St. Anne's parish was founded in 1869, the first French parish in Fall River, for families who had begun coming from Quebec in the 1860s to work in the mills. The Dominican Fathers took it over in 1887. In 1891 the pastor, Father Bernard Sauval, set out to build a large church as a shrine to St. Anne. Napoleon Bourassa of Canada drew the plans and the Fall River architect Louis Destremps carried them out. The first Mass was said in the basement in 1895. Work then stopped for years because church authorities feared the debt. Permission came in 1902 and the upper church was dedicated in 1906. It was built of blue Vermont marble on a base of local granite, with two towers 155 feet high.
Written from the Massachusetts Historical Commission inventory form in this place's National Register file (National Park Service).
The official record
Building · Listed 1983 · Contributing: 3 buildings
Multiple property listing: Fall River MRA
The pin is the center of the area the federal record covers, not a street address.
This page shows the federal record's own fields.
Around Mount Hope Bay, 1777 to 1891
6 stops across Rhode Island and Massachusetts, in trail order.
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- 1Joseph Reynolds House956 Hope St. · Bristol · Bristol CountyThe pin is the center of the area the federal record covers, not a street address.
- 2Mount Hope FarmMetacom Ave. · Bristol · Bristol CountyThe pin is the center of the area the federal record covers, not a street address.
- 3Battle of Rhode Island SiteLehigh Hill and both sides of RI 21 between Medley and Dexter Sts. · Portsmouth · Newport CountyThe pin is the center of the area the federal record covers, not a street address.
- 4Fort Barton SiteLawton and Highland Aves. · Tiverton · Newport CountyThe pin is the coordinate the Park Service publishes for this listing.
- 5American Printing Co. and Metacomet MillAnawan St. · Fall River · Bristol CountyThe pin is the center of the area the federal record covers, not a street address.
- 6St. Anne's Church and Parish Complex780 S. Main St. · Fall River · Bristol CountyThe pin is the center of the area the federal record covers, not a street address.
Around Mount Hope Bay, 1777 to 1891
You visited every stop: 6 in all. A TreeAlive curated trail.
- Joseph Reynolds House956 Hope St. · Bristol · Bristol County
- Mount Hope FarmMetacom Ave. · Bristol · Bristol County
- Battle of Rhode Island SiteLehigh Hill and both sides of RI 21 between Medley and Dexter Sts. · Portsmouth · Newport County
- Fort Barton SiteLawton and Highland Aves. · Tiverton · Newport County
- American Printing Co. and Metacomet MillAnawan St. · Fall River · Bristol County
- St. Anne's Church and Parish Complex780 S. Main St. · Fall River · Bristol County
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